Sheffield station

Sheffield
Sheffield station from Sheaf Square
Location
Place	Sheffield
Local authority	City of Sheffield
Coordinates	53°22′41″N 1°27′43″W / 53.378°N 1.462°W / 53.378; -1.462Coordinates: 53°22′41″N 1°27′43″W / 53.378°N 1.462°W / 53.378; -1.462
Grid reference	SK358869
Operations
Station code	SHF
Managed by	East Midlands Trains
Owned by	Network Rail
Number of platforms	9
DfT category	B
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12	8.424 million
2012/13	8.615 million
2013/14	8.618 million
2014/15	9.113 million
– Interchange	1.007 million
2015/16	9.213 million
– Interchange	1.033 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Travel South Yorkshire
Zone	Sheffield
History
1870	Opened as Pond Street
1905	Extension
1956	Rooftop removed
1973	Power signal box built
2006	Major redevelopment completed
National Rail – UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Sheffield from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Sheffield station, formerly Pond Street and later Sheffield Midland, is a combined railway station and tram stop in Sheffield, England, and the busiest station in South Yorkshire. Adjacent is Sheffield station/Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield Supertram stop. In 2010–11, the station was the 35th-busiest in the UK, and the 11th-busiest outside London.

The station is currently being considered as an HS2 stop.

The station was opened in 1870 by the Midland Railway to the designs of the company architect John Holloway Sanders. It was the fifth and last station to be built in Sheffield city centre.

The station was built on the 'New Line', which ran between Grimesthorpe Junction, on the former Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, and Tapton Junction, just north of Chesterfield. This line replaced the Midland Railway's previous route, the 'old road', to London, which ran from Sheffield Wicker via Rotherham.

The new line and station were built despite some controversy and opposition locally. The Duke of Norfolk, who owned land in the area, insisted that the southern approach be in a tunnel and the land known as The Farm landscaped to prevent the line being seen. Some years later the tunnel was opened out into a cutting. Sheffield Corporation was so concerned about the eastern side of the city being cut off from the city centre that it insisted that public access be preserved across the railway site.

The station and Pond Street Goods Depot opened on a damp and cold day without any celebrations. There were originally different passenger entrances for each class. The original station buildings have been preserved and are between island platforms 2 to 5.